Kimmel Seth Kimmel

Librarian's Atlas (eBook, ePUB)

The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps Kimmel reveals how the booklover s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226833187
• Artikelnr.: 72461308

Autorenporträt

Seth Kimmel is associate professor of Latin American and Iberian cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain, also published by the University of Chicago Press.